Podcast: A conversation with Tim Gette

In this new series, “A conversation with …,” I will talk with a different downtowner every month, presenting the Q&A in podcast form.

In this first installment, I interview Tim Gette, executive director of the Institute of Texan Cultures. Since he took over ITC a little more than a year ago, Gette has instituted numerous changes. Two examples are more exhibits and the museum’s recent agreement with the Smithsonian Institution. In this interview, Gette addresses these issues, as well as ITC’s role in the reconstruction of HemisFair Park.

Before ITC, Gette, who calls San Angelo home, served as the executive director/CEO of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia, for five years, and, before that, as chief operating officer of the Dallas Museum of Natural History.

This podcast has been edited to exclude long pauses and my own nervous laughter.